Fred Wilson Quotes - Page 2

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• It's not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership.

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  Entrepreneur, Tools, Reputation

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• I believe the mobile OS market will play out very similarly to Windows and Macintosh, with Android in the role of Windows. And so if you want to be in front of the largest number of users, you need to be on Android.

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  Believe, Play, Numbers

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• New York's niche is content, and content is becoming more valuable. Just think about what is more valuable: MTV or the cable system that you use to get MTV? Howard Stern or the radio station you use to listen to him? Ultimately, technology becomes a commodity, and content - real, true branded content - becomes more valuable.

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  New York, Real, Technology

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• Money is information, like bits.

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  Information, Bits

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• Games are the most social of all things on the web.

  Fred Wilson

  Playing Games, Games, Social

  "Fred Wilson: Marketing". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2011.

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• If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented.

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  Competition, Needs, Want

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• I also like to use a sensational headline. Many people read blogs in aggregators, which generally show only the headline. So you have to give people a reason to click through. Blogs need to be real and personal. Reading it should be like hanging out with you. I play music for my readers. I show them videos I like. I tell them what I did over the weekend. And I tell them what is happening in the technology, Internet, and VC markets.

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  Success, Business, Real

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• Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.

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  Clever, Games, Adoption

  "Fred Wilson: Marketing". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2011.

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• Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web.

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  People, Juggernaut, Unstoppable

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• I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.

  Fred Wilson

  Want, Profile, Newsworthy

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• Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.

  Fred Wilson

  Equity, Raises, Expensive

  "Startup Financing 101: Capital Equipment Loans" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2011.

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• I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

  Fred Wilson

  Thinking, Speech, Censorship

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• Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long.

  Fred Wilson

  Kids, Long, Skype

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• Certainly anything that is news or opinion needs to be free on the Web, because the Web is this very fluid medium that is very much driven by links and the flow of visitors through a discussion via links.

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  Links, Flow, Visitors

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• When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.

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  Mean, Ideas, People

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• To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.

  Fred Wilson

  Littles

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• There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.

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  Differences, Ceo, Hiring

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• We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.

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  Space, Disease, Energy

  "Can the Crowd Be More Patient" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.

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• The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.

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  Country, Technology, Cities

  "New York vs. Silicon Valley? No City Has A Lock On Innovation" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.

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• Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.

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  Country, Home, Sacrifice

  "A Veterans Day Story" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• People already love to play casual games. But when you take a casual game and stick it inside a social network, it becomes way more exciting.

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  Games, Play, People

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• Profiles aren't journalism.

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  Journalism, Profile

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• All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.

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  Thinking, Venture, Exaggerated

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• If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That's why Twitter is performing so well on mobile.

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  Way, Scales, Performing

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• There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.

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  Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Good Things

  "What We Are Seeing" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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